ECSA 56: Special conference journal issues now published
12.10.18 | More than 500 scientists from all over the world gathered in Bremen for the ECSA 56 Conference "Coastal systems in transition: From a 'natural' to an 'anthropogenically-modified state" chaired by ZMT scientist Dr. Tim Jennerjahn. Due to...
Future Earth Coasts – On the Move!
11.10.2018 | The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), under the lead of its scientific director, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal, has successfully applied to host the renowned International Project Office (IPO) consortium of Future Earth Coasts...
Apply now for Winter School “Applied Non-Linear Dynamics & Scientific Writing” at AIMS in Senegal
02.10.2018 | From February 4-8 2019, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal will be holding a Winter School. The school covers applied non-linear dynamics and...
Mourning the loss of ZMT's Brazilian partner Professor Horácio Schneider
01.10.2018 | The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) mourns the loss of Professor Horácio Schneider from the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) in Brazil. The biologist and long-standing partner of ZMT died on September 27 in...
Tropical coastlines: From global to local stressors
26.09.2018 | Coastlines, the natural boundary between land and sea, are among the most complex socio-ecological systems on our planet. This is especially true in densely populated areas where people are particularly influential to coastal...
A virtual dive through coral reefs at Bremen's Research Mile
20.9.2018 | How healthy is our environment? Anyone interested in this question can gain exciting insights at the stands of Jacobs University Bremen and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT). Next weekend (September 22 and 23, each...
Evaluating environmental risks differently: New event in ZMT's lecture series "Bremen Earth and Social Science Talks"
17.09.2018 | On 20 September at 5:00 p.m., Swedish environmental law expert Prof. Dr. Lena Gipperth will give a lecture on the protection of coasts and oceans from chemical pollution. Nowadays an enormous number of industrially produced chemical...
U Bremen Research Alliance Promotes Bremen as a Research Location at the GAIN Career Fair in Boston
11.09.2018 | The U Bremen Research Alliance, consisting of the 11 non-university research institutes in Bremen and Bremerhaven and the University of Bremen, presented itself at the GAIN (German Academic International Network) career fair in Boston on...
New NAM Fellows at ZMT
10.09.2018 | This year, ZMT welcomes again five scientists holding a NAM fellowship who will stay for three months in different working groups. The guests are arriving from Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Mauritius and Nigeria and will cooperate...
First ZMT stakeholder workshop in China
04.09.2018 | As part of the TICAS* project, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) together with the Hainan Ocean and Fishery Research Institute invited more than 60 stakeholders to a workshop which took place as a follow-up to the...
German and Chinese researchers develop recommendations for the sustainable use of Chinese coastal ecosystems
03.09.2018 | Scientists from the German-Chinese project ECOLOC*, which is coordinated by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) recently met for a workshop in Haikou, Hainan, China. A total of 56 researchers from universities and...